John Nicholas Pepys Rawlins (born 31 May 1949) is a British experimental psychologist, and one of the pro vice-chancellor and vice-president of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
His research interests include animal learning and memory, brain mechanisms of memory storage, animal models of psychosis, attentional deficits in schizophrenia, functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of pain in humans, and behavioural phenotyping of genetically modified mice.
He was appointed as Oxford University's Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Development and External Affairs on 23 June 2010.
[1] In 2018, Rawlins became Master of Morningside College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
His most cited paper is entitled "Place Navigation Impaired in Rats with Hippocampal Lesions", published in Nature in 1982 jointly with Richard G. Morris, Paul Garrud, and John O'Keefe, which as of November 2024[update] had been cited 6,268 times, according to scite.ai.